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Location

Statutory Address:

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS TO LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY WITH GATE PIERS AND GATES, GREAT GEORGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:

Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)

National Grid Reference:

SE 29616 33969

Details

LEEDS

SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET
714-1/75/197 (North side)
08/10/70 Boundary wall and railings to Leeds
General Infirmary with gate piers
and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
GREAT GEORGE STREET
(North side)
Boundary wall and Gates to Leeds
General Infirmary)

GV II

Boundary wall with railings and gate piers. 1863-8, altered
late C19. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. Brick, English bond,
ashlar and brick piers, stone copings and details,
wrought-iron railings.
Overall length approx 100m, height of railings approx 1-1.5m
and gate piers 2m. The length fronting the original Infirmary
is angled to turn corner into Thoresby Place, left and has
inner and outer piers with crocket-style finials with railings
fronting left return of Infirmary; at the right (east) end the
walling is interrupted by the wide carriage entrance flanked
by narrower pedestrian gateways, gates missing. Roll moulding
to wall coping, railings with zigzag interlaced iron straps,
C-scroll plaques and flower-bud finials; brick piers with
corniced capstones and trefoil plaques to finials.
Main gate piers are square in section, have attached corner
shafts with foliate capitals, gabled capstones, the inner pair
elaborated with carved foliage to entablature and plaque on
gable front.
The 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows the curved carriage drive
with angled gateways at each end; the gateway right was
probably repositioned when the extension was added to the
hospital late C19.

Listing NGR: SE2961633969

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

465139

Legacy System:

LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

End of official listing

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